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This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for fulltime working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...
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women at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regression …
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This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
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-negotiated wages, the compression of the wage distribution occurs in particular in the lower range. The trade union effects also vary …
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. In contrast, there is no evidence of a polarization of wages in Germany since the 1990s. …
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women at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269865
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269884
This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271220
, cannot be corroborated for wages determined at the firm level. Stochastic dominance is confirmed, as predicted by the …
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changes in wages are determined that would have been necessary to halve the qualification-specific unemployment rate in 1997 …. The estimated substitution elasticities are very high. The necessary reduction in wages lies nominally between 9 % and 10 … marginal productivity theory of wages and search theory, and examined empirically. The findings support neither of the two …
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